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Acknowledgments

The Native Vegetation Management Guide for the Riverina was produced following a successful Natural Heritage Trust grant application by the Native Dog Working Group and Berrigan Shire Council.

We are grateful for the considerable input, guidance and encouragement from Emmo Willinck, Glen Martin, Martin Driver, John Naimo, Greg Cooper and Carla Miles.

Thanks goes to Lachlan Sutherland and Simon McDonald for producing all maps in the Guide, and State Forests NSW, the Rural Land Protection Board and NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service for providing GIS layers of reserved areas.

Thank you to Martin Driver for his wonderful vegetation profile drawings and Wagga Wagga City Council for scanning these drawings.

We are very appreciative of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne and Leon Costermans granting permission to use botanical illustrations from the Flora of New South Wales, the Flora of Victoria and Native Trees and Shrubs of Southeastern Australia respectively in this Guide.

Thanks to the Department of Land and Water Conservation Native Vegetation Mapping Program, Wagga Wagga who provided floristic data from their surveys and data from previous surveys in the region. DLWC kindly provided the Western Riverina current vegetation map layer, and the NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service provided the pre- European vegetation map layer for the Riverina.

Marc Irvin from the NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service provided wildlife data for the Riverina Bioregion from their Atlas of New South Wales Wildlife electronic database.

Thank you to Peter Milthorpe from NSW Agriculture and Louise Bull for compiling the weed species list.

Thank you to the authors for their contributions to this Guide.

We are grateful for comments received on draft versions of the Guide received from Lachlan Sutherland, Andrea Wilson, Jodie Kurpershoek, Louise Harrison, Bill Mulham, Sue Brunskill, Martin Driver, David Eldridge, Paul Hutchings, John Naimo, David Parker, Mark Rowe, Mike Thompson, Tom North, Catherine Allan, Denis Martin, Jan Palmer, Deborah Nias, Trish Alexander and Jacqui Stol.

Kylie Kent, Gill Earl, Martin Driver, Paul Hutchings and Bruce Mullins supplied photographs. David Parker contributed drawings for his chapter.

Thanks go to Brenden Chambers, Chris Jones and Lisa Ward who have developed the on-line Native Vegetation Guide for the Riverina as part of their final year studies in Information Technology at Charles Sturt University. The on-line guide can be accessed via the Charles Sturt University Herbarium web page at http://life.csu.edu.au/herb/